Originally Posted by
chandltp
Just a nitpick... it's a traffic lane. Motorcycles, trucks, cars, buses, and bicycles are all permitted to use it. But calling it a "car lane" bugs me as much as people saying "ATM Machine".
FWIW, if a majority of traffic may be turning right on red, I move to the far left of the lane I'm in (assuming it's a straight / right turn lane). That allows cars to still turn right on red.
If it's a straight only lane, I sit right in the middle of the lane until I clear the intersection. I have had too many unsafe passes (on both the left and the right) with other lane positions.
All that assumes that I'm in front of the cars. Usually, I'm sitting in the lane behind some other vehicles. But my center lane position is still used until I clear the intersection.
You and I have very similar riding styles, although I don't see the issue with saying "car lane." Yes, technically it's the "traffic lane," but I think of it like how the US is called America, when there are a ton of other countries that could fall under that name. Sometimes it's easier simply to refer to the thing by whatever/whoever uses it the most.